Guest Lecture: Richard Florida and The New Urban Crisis
Join the Boston University Initiative on Cities on Thursday, November 9, 2017, at 4:30pm at 213 Bay State Road to welcome Richard Florida to campus. Florida will present a lecture on his new book, The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class—and What We Can Do […]
IOC Menino Fellow to Work in National League of Cities in Washington, D.C.
The Initiative on Cities (IOC) is pleased to announce Augustine Jimenez (Boston University Class of 2020) as our 2017-2018 National League of Cities (NLC) Menino Fellow. Augustine is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations. Through this Fellowship, Augustine will spend the fall semester paired with a faculty member in an on-campus Directed […]
Event Recap: Cities in the Federal System
Jerry Abramson, Michael Nutter, and Katie King (CAS’06, SPH’13) visited the IOC on Thursday, October 5th, 2017, to explore intergovernmental relations in a partisan era. The panel discussed how cities, states, and the federal government collaborate across issues and party lines. Katie King, the Interim Director of Intergovernmental Relations for the City of Boston, noted that the […]
IOC Executive Director Helps Shape the Women Mayors’ Network
Katharine Lusk, Executive Director of the Initiative on Cities, traveled to New York last week to help shape the upcoming Women Mayors’ Network, founded by the National Democratic Institute (NDI). The Women Mayors’ Network, or WoMN, focuses on highlighting women’s’ perspective in mayoral positions in cities around the globe. The network brings international collaboration and […]
Event Recap: Transportation Vision to Transformative Reality
On September 27, the Initiative on Cities hosted two speakers to discuss how urban transportation can shift towards an equitable, sustainable future. Terrance Regan Terrence Regan, from the Boston University Metropolitan College and the U.S. DOT Volpe Center, covered how regional governments are cooperating with private businesses to make large-scale projects more feasible and modern. Companies […]
Tune in Today: Cities in the Federal System
Jerry Abramson, Michael Nutter, and Katie King (CAS’06, SPH’13) discuss how mayors and officials at the state and federal levels can work together to identify and achieve common goals.
Event Recap: Sustainable Development in Ghana
On September 29, His Excellency Dr. Barfuor Adjei-Barwuah, Ambassador of the Republic of Ghana to the United States, came to the Initiative on Cities to speak about sustainable development in two of Ghana’s largest cities, Accra and Kumasi. Adjei-Barwuah noted the difficulty of developing an urban area without suburban expansion, saying government leaders must be […]
Using Data to Streamline City Services: My Summer in Providence
This summer I worked as the Boston University Initiative on Cities Fellow for the City of Providence’s Department of Innovation. The Department of Innovation works with internal and external stakeholders to streamline the delivery of city services, promote public entrepreneurship, and enhance citizen engagement, to ensure Providence is a “City that Works” for its residents […]
Working Towards a More Resilient Boston: My Summer as an IOC MORRE Fellow
As the Boston University Initiative on Cities and Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground Summer 2017 Fellow in the Boston Mayor’s Office of Resilience and Racial Equity (MORRE), I worked with a team that pioneers Boston’s efforts to respond to and deal with catastrophes that may affect the City of Boston. When challenges arise in […]
The Difference a Mayor Makes: My Summer in Manchester, England
From the inception of its textiles industry, Manchester has been an engine of industry-led innovation, defining the city as a center of economic and institutional development. Manchester’s origin as a pioneer of development influenced its decision to devolve from national government. With its first mayor and newly-formed Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA), the new Manchester […]